A MAN who attempted to murder his girlfriend by burying her alive in a cardboard box was jailed for 20 years today.

Marcin Kasprzak, 26, attacked Michelina Lewandowska with a Taser, bound and gagged her and buried her under soil, leaves and an 88lb tree branch in woodland near their home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Miss Lewandowska, 27, escaped from the box after around an hour by using her engagement ring to cut herself free.